Post by robeiae on Aug 21, 2017 8:55:55 GMT -5
Yes, it's Eclipse Day. But in Miami-Dade, it's also the first day of the new school year.
So, off I went to drop-off, with 100,000+ other parents in the region, to see our little ones safely into their new classrooms. And because it was the first day of school, because all of the school zones became active once again, there were plenty of police officers out and about, plenty of crossing guards, to go with the incredibly dense traffic that afflicted the areas around every school, especially elementary schools.
The process is pretty simple: park, walk your kid in to school, walk back to your car, leave. And again, there were cops and crossing guards aplenty to make this process safe. So here's thought: what the hell is wrong with parents--so freaking many of them--that they can't use the crosswalks and crossing guards for this process, that they actually walk their kids through traffic to get to school (thus saving maybe a minute of time)? Its stunning to me how many people are unwilling to use the crosswalks, who think it's perfectly acceptable to walk between cars that are stopped in traffic to get to their schools. And they do this when the crosswalk isn't even fifty feet away!
Gah!
So, off I went to drop-off, with 100,000+ other parents in the region, to see our little ones safely into their new classrooms. And because it was the first day of school, because all of the school zones became active once again, there were plenty of police officers out and about, plenty of crossing guards, to go with the incredibly dense traffic that afflicted the areas around every school, especially elementary schools.
The process is pretty simple: park, walk your kid in to school, walk back to your car, leave. And again, there were cops and crossing guards aplenty to make this process safe. So here's thought: what the hell is wrong with parents--so freaking many of them--that they can't use the crosswalks and crossing guards for this process, that they actually walk their kids through traffic to get to school (thus saving maybe a minute of time)? Its stunning to me how many people are unwilling to use the crosswalks, who think it's perfectly acceptable to walk between cars that are stopped in traffic to get to their schools. And they do this when the crosswalk isn't even fifty feet away!
Gah!
